Instead of using a simple lifetime average, Udemy calculates a course's star rating by considering a number of different factors such as the number of ratings, the age of ratings, and the likelihood of fraudulent ratings.

Six steps to leading productive meetings

Instead of using a simple lifetime average, Udemy calculates a course's star rating by considering a number of different factors such as the number of ratings, the age of ratings, and the likelihood of fraudulent ratings.

Meetings should be collaborative, productive spaces that make the best possible use of everyone’s time, skills and experience. This course looks at why so many meetings go wrong and provides six key pointers for making sure they go right.

All too often, the meetings we attend are tedious, irrelevant and a waste of our time - when they ought to be a place where we can get together to share information, skills and experience and achieve something special. Meetings are an expensive activity for any organisation, so it’s important that they actually achieve what they set out to do, and don’t just stop people from getting on with their jobs.

Using a mix of drama and expert commentary from leading workplace psychologist Sarah Lewis, this course looks at why so many meetings go wrong and provides six easy steps for reclaiming the power of the meeting and turning it into a dynamic space for constructive collaboration.

This course will give a better understanding of:

The importance of creating and maintaining a positive atmosphere

How to encourage creativity and get people to share ideas, information and resources

How asking questions can help us manage conflict situations and find answers to problems

What to do when people don’t turn up

Why thinking outside the group makes for better decisions

What we can do to ensure buy-in and commitment.

Who is the target audience?

Anyone who wants to learn how to lead productive and effective meetings

This module looks at why it's important to focus on those people who have attended the meeting and how to make the best use of everyone's time.

Step 3 - Focus on the people who are present

04:38

These questions will check your understanding of certain key points covered in this module.

Starting the meeting: Check your understanding

2 questions

+–

During the meeting

2 Lectures
06:43

This module explains how thinking beyond the boundaries of the group can make for better and more sustainable decision-making.

Step 4 - Think beyond the boundaries of the group

01:24

This module looks at the importance of building and sustaining a positive atmosphere and examines how we can counter our natural negativity bias by looking for positive, constructive ways of responding to ideas and suggestions.

Step 5 - Find positive things to say

05:19

These questions will check your understanding of certain key points covered in this module.

During the meeting: Check your understanding

2 questions

+–

Closing the meeting

1 Lecture
03:15

This module looks at how to end your meeting on a positive note and what to do in order to secure commitment and buy-in from everyone present.

Step 6 - Finish on a future-oriented, positive note

03:15

These questions will check your understanding of certain key points covered in this module.

Closing the meeting: Check your understanding

2 questions

This quiz will check your understanding of the various points covered in the course.

At Skill Boosters we work with leading subject matter experts to design, develop and deliver training for the workplace. We are passionate about delivering behavioural training which helps to build productive, tolerant and inclusive individuals, teams and workplaces and which improves lives and life chances.

Initially a social worker, Sarah built her expertise in helping people change their ways of thinking and
behaviour by working in child protection. Since then she has worked for over 20 years with
organizations from production and service sectors as well as with higher education, not-for-profit
and local and central government. A chartered psychologist, Sarah is an experienced facilitator with
special expertise in creating individually designed large or whole system interventions based on
Appreciative Inquiry, Open Space and other key collaborative transformation methodologies. She
works in the areas of socio-technical system implementation, team development, whole system
change and organisational development. She helps organizations to address their issues, meet their
challenges and achieve their desires in areas of organisational life such as performance, change,
strategy, relationships, morale, engagement and motivation, working together, process improvement,
leadership, co-ordination, and effectiveness. She is often asked to help when things are ‘stuck’ or
dysfunctional at a team, organisational or individual level, yet is equally able to help make good
better.

She is the author ‘Positive Psychology at Work’ and ‘Positive Psychology and Change’ and lead author
of ‘Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management’. She is a recognised expert in these areas and
speaks regularly at National and International Conferences.